‘People don’t like to upset the person sending the flowers by complaining, but it’s important you do, because you don’t want your friend or relative wasting their money,’ says Helen Dewdney Photograph: Alamy

Wilted, dead bouquets – or flowers that fail to turn up at all. Whether you’re trying to wish someone a happy birthday, or to cheer them up as they sit at home ill, there’s not much worse than discovering that your thoughtful gift was actually a bit rubbish.

Earlier this year, delivery firm Yodel was forced to apologise after Mother’s Day flowers from customers who ordered from Marks & Spencer, Moonpig, Waitrose and Interflora failed to arrive. It

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IT’S NOT every day that references to Adam Smith and Milton Friedman show up in the footnotes of a Democratic White House report. But a new white paper from President Obama’s economic team on the job-killing, anti-consumer effect of unduly burdensome state occupational licensing is that rarest of government intellectual products: one that actually transcends ideological categories, casting fresh light on a long-standing problem and……………. continues on Washington Post

Duncan Scott/DScott@News-Herald.comGeri White prepares a bouquet of flowers for a customer on Aug. 12 in her Kirtland flower shop, Countryside Floral Cards & Gifts. White has sold her store and will be retiring after 35 years owning the business.

Geri White never planned on owning a flower shop.

A former secretary at Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights, White took over ownership of Countryside Floral, 10535 Chillicothe Road in Kirtland, for her brother in 1980. On Aug. 17, she�ll hand over ownership to Denise Pretnar Gorski, a former customer.

White, 76, has collected 35 years of memories in the floral business. She said she�ll miss the people she encountered the most. Working in Kirtland�s small community made it easy to develop relationships with loyal customers she�ll always remember.

�My good memories are just watching people grow up,� White said. �The young kids come in with their parents and some of them, I did their wedding. Then they bring their kids in and as they got older, I was doing the flowers for their homecoming and prom. I�ve been here long……………. continues on News-Herald.com

Duncan Scott/DScott@News-Herald.comGeri White prepares a bouquet of flowers for a customer on Aug. 12 in her Kirtland flower shop, Countryside Floral Cards & Gifts. White has sold her store and will be retiring after 35 years owning the business.

Geri White never planned on owning a flower shop.

A former secretary at Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights, White took over ownership of Countryside Floral, 10535 Chillicothe Road in Kirtland, for her brother in 1980. On Aug. 17, she�ll hand over ownership to Denise Pretnar Gorski, a former customer.

White, 76, has collected 35 years of memories in the floral business. She said she�ll miss the people she encountered the most. Working in Kirtland�s small community made it easy to develop relationships with loyal customers she�ll always remember.

�My good memories are just watching people grow up,� White said. �The young kids come in with their parents and some of them, I did their wedding. Then they bring their kids in and as they got older, I was doing the flowers for their homecoming and prom. I�ve been here long……………. continues on News-Herald.com

BoxFox makes the perfect gift, but you’ll want one for yourself. (Photo: BoxFox)

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Maine reportedly has the lowest crime rate in the nation, but Maine mystery writers love to stack up dead bodies at an alarming pace in seemingly idyllic small towns. And the Franklin County town of Redimere has a murder rate to rival Baltimore.

“Cold Hard News” is the first book in a new mystery series by Maureen Milliken, a local newspaper editor with a keen nose for news, clues and solid storytelling. Her accidental sleuth is Bernadette “Bernie” O’Dea, the editor of Redimere’s paper, the “Peaks Weekly Watcher.” Bernie is a former hotshot big-city reporter, now treading lightly through the minefield of small-town politics, snarky gossip and petty rivalries. The biggest story she’s covered so far is the unsolved crime of garbage throwing in town.

Then a dead body is found frozen in a snowplow-created roadside snow berm. This is big news, especially when it is determined that this is not an accidental death. Bernie is single, attractive and never lets the facts get in the way of a good story, so when she pokes around in the victi……………. continues on Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel

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She was actually fined for the crime of living according to her religious beliefs.

Speaking recently to The Daily Signal, a Christian business owner caught in the middle of a very public debate over gay marriage said her life has been turned upside down since she shared her view on the issue. Barronelle Stutzman was found guilty of discrimination after citing her faith as the reason that she would refuse to help decorate a gay wedding ceremony.

The ruling, which included a $ 1,000 fine, came as other business owners acr……………. continues on Western Journalism